solar year
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The current Gregorian calendar system makes the fractional days of the solar year and leap year calendar nearly equal by occasionally skipping a leap day.
From National Geographic ● Feb. 26, 2024
The Gregorian calendar, intended to more accurately mark the solar year, was adopted in 1752, adding 11 days.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 17, 2024
For the next three quarters of a solar year, our daylight allotment will be less.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 6, 2022
The 260-day calendar, called the tzolk'in, was one of several inter-related Maya systems of reckoning time, also including a solar year of 365 days, a larger system called the "Long Count" and a lunar system.
From Reuters ● Apr. 14, 2022
Since it is the solar year, not the lunar year, that determines the time for harvest and planting, the seasons seem to drift when you reckon by an uncorrected lunar year.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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